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[mossy arrow]

What does float mean?

[rancid wave]

Well it didn't i have to be doing somthing Worng.

[wary sable]

this is to help answer questions that people have about code at a beginner level yes, but the assumption is that people attempt to research their questions before asking them. Nothing personal, there are just some questions that can be easily answered with one google search, others need some more boutique explanation. That is what this is for

[cosmic dagger]

yes, but you should always search your question first, especially, smth as simple as this with results and immediate answers. if you trouble using or understanding it, you can always return with examples or code you have problems with . . .

[mossy arrow]

I don’t get it when google says what it is

[wary sable]

your box collider is set to a very small size, make sure to have gizmos on so you can see the hit box and make sure its big enough

[cosmic dagger]

what does google say that confuses you? now we're getting somewhere . . .

[mossy arrow]

I don’t get it.

I don’t get why u can’t say what a float does

[cosmic dagger]

okay, which part? this explains it in a nut-shell, specifically, the highlighted part . . .

[mossy arrow]

Containing one or more decimal

[eternal needle]

0 is a decimal

[cosmic dagger]

wait, is that the confusing part? or are you saying what a float is?

[cosmic dagger]

what about this?

[mossy arrow]

What does it mean

[cosmic dagger]

they are two fields of the type float . . .

[eternal needle]

you should really take some basics of c# course first, whether online or through some paid course/tutoring. theres many many free resources online. this is a unity server so people generally dont want to teach the very basics. Like a rocket scientist wouldnt probably enjoy teaching you how to use a bike

[cosmic dagger]

do you know what a field or variable is?

[cosmic dagger]

the highlighted distance field?

[mossy arrow]

Both

I wanna known both

[cosmic dagger]

both what? that's a yes or no question. if you do not, then you should really follow a beginner c# or intro to c# video tutorial. we can't go through the entire basics of a what a type, variable, field, etc., are in the chat . . .

you have to read/watch to learn the basics of c# as a pre-requisite to coding . . .

[mossy arrow]

Bro what do u not get where I said what is a float

[wary sable]

this is the very fundamentals of coding, these things are used by basically every coding language... if you do not understand what is happening in that image you are not going to understand much beyond that until you take the time to learn the very basics. It doesnt take very long and you will be much better off in the long run.

[cosmic dagger]

i sent a pic that literally tells you what a float is: a number with a fractional part. do you know what a fraction is? it's a decimal value. the highlighted text says, "containing one or more decimals. there is nothing simpler to say . . .

[mossy arrow]

I did not get what it means

So it like 0.3f?

[wary sable]

yes that is a __float__ing point number

[cosmic dagger]

if you don't know what a fraction or decimal is, i would look that up to learn. i'm not sure what you mean beyond that . . .

[mossy arrow]

How much floats is there

[cosmic dagger]

also, you can google or search examples of a float in c# . . .

[mossy arrow]

.

[cosmic dagger]

what? a floating point number is any value with one or more decimals. that can be never-ending . . .

[mossy arrow]

Ok but how much floats is there

Is there different meanings

[wary sable]

are you asking if there are different types of floats?

[mossy arrow]

Yes

[cosmic dagger]

already answered. it's never-ending, endless . . .

[wary sable]

there are floats, doubles and decimals (for most all purposes related to unity you should use floats)
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/floating-point-numeric-types

[mossy arrow]

@wary sable

What if

The float was used like this

[cosmic dagger]

that's just a regular float . . .

[mossy arrow]

Where is the number

I only see sped

Speed

[wary sable]

there is no number

[cosmic dagger]

if there is no number, it's given a default value . . .

[wary sable]

you are just telling the program that the variables distance and speed can hold numbers (that can have decimals)

[mossy arrow]

Oh

Now I get it

[cosmic dagger]

this is called a declaration. you are declaring a field named distance of type float that is private . . .

[mossy arrow]

If u put it in this way I don’t get it

What is the different between vector and vector2?

[wary sable]

https://www.c-sharpcorner.com/article/unity-vectors-and-input-methods/#:~:text=There are two types of,%2C y%2C %26 z).

[solar tide]

Question.
I'm making a card game and I've came across two ways I can continue developing.
Either make a game object prefab for every single card and put the prefabs inside an array list in the inspector.
But two tutorials I watched said that this method is not clean and instead you should only have 1 prefab and use structures and list to store all the info for different cards and apply the data to the card prefab at awake.
Which method is better or rather, what are the upsides and downsides for each method?
Making a prefab for every card definitely feels easier to do but I can see that it may create a lot of space(although each prefab is just 200KB at most. The card images themselves actually reach 800K so if anything the png pictures are too big) but I am not sure what exactly is the problem with this method other than people saying it's "not clean."

[eternal needle]

regardless of it not being clean, its a way bigger hassle. Whats the difference between cards? just a value and a visual (and possibly the affect associated with it, depending on the game). everything else about cards are the exact same. If you make a bunch of prefabs, then for example decide later that you want the cards to actually be slightly bigger, you gotta go through each prefab and change that

so its not even quicker or easier

[last igloo]

hey does anyone know how to get intellesense to work on visual studio code?

[swift sedge]

Why not just use Visual Studio?

[last igloo]

i think i deleted that bc i couldn’t get the debugger to work

ima just try that again

ig

[eternal needle]

!vscode

[eternal falcon]

Visual Studio Code guide

If your IDE is not underlining errors in red or autocompleting code,
please configure it using the link below:

https://on.unity.com/vscode

[swift sedge]

Did you install the game dev with unity package?

[eternal needle]

tho i recommend VS cause debugger

[swift sedge]

I managed to get VS Code to work, but it recently stopped working for some reason

So is started using VS

[last igloo]

that exactly happened to me

it just started being weird

and now it officially doesn’t wanna cooperate

[swift sedge]

If your imports (using) are pink instead of blue, then it's not working

[last igloo]

i fixed all that stuff i’m just trying to get the unity thing to work, like the red underline when something is wrong

and the suggestions

[swift sedge]

Pink means VS Code is trying to look for the namespace

[last igloo]

auto suggestions things

[swift sedge]

Just use Visual Studio

You have a debugger aswell

VS Code is a glorified text editor

[last igloo]

community ?

[weak talon]

When ever i export my game as WebGL there is a lot of bugs in the game and it doesnt work the same as in the unity editor
anyone know a fix?

[keen dew]

You'll have to be more specific. Nobody knows a fix to just "a lot of bugs"

[weak talon]

there isnt actaully any bugs in the unity editor but when exported and when i play it on google as webgl the game dosnt work properly

[timber tide]

You can debug your webgl build in the browser by opening the dev tools

usually f12

[keen dew]

Yes, you said that already. You'll still have to be more specific, we don't know what "doesn't work properly" means

[weak talon]

in game the sword is meant to attack and dissapear after .5 seconds but it just stays there

and in the unity editor it works fine

[timber tide]

Are you using coroutines

[weak talon]

yeah

[timber tide]

change them to general time scripts

[weak talon]

sorry how do i do that?

[timber tide]

just don't use coroutines and use basic timer functions to delay your attacks

[weak talon]

but why was it working every other upload except this one

[timber tide]

something to search the forums for cause they break in my builds too and I've no exact answer

even methods of async are screwy too but that's somethign I can understand

you should just make sure nothing else isbreaking in your build first using the dev tools

[last igloo]

@swift sedge IT WORKSSSSS thank you for the advice

[timber tide]

Before you change anything, just make sure you don't have errors in the web console, because if it's throwing errors on load then it could be something else.

and I don't want you go about changing your code even though I have a grudge with coroutines :)

[weak talon]

thanks for help but i fixed it

i had 2 scenes and one of them looks basically the same as the other
and i think it like combinded both scenes together so it like broke everything

[timber tide]

Honestly, you should always build to a desktop platform or mobile before building on webgl

webgl builds are a headache to debug usually and doing it something on a desktop build is just easier

[rancid wave]

How do i make a UI of the speed of my player. cant find anything on Google

[fringe pollen]

You mean you want UI that displays the speed of the player or a game object that moves at the speed of the player or what?

[rancid wave]

Yes my bad

Of the player

[violet rose]

For one thing, don't compare pig to null every frame, it's costly (assuming you're concerned about performance optimization at this stage). Just set it once in Awake or Start, or serialize it in the Inspector. In terms of cleaning the rest of the code, there's likely some kind of abstraction you could explore around these order buttons, but it's hard to tell how much could be possible without seeing the PigOrders and PigBehaviour scripts as well.

[wooden minnow]

im just learning Mathf.Clamp()
can someone tell me if this does what i think it will

                Quaternion rotationAddon = rightHandRotation * Quaternion.Inverse(prevRightHandRotation);
                stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.Rotate(rotationAddon.eulerAngles);
                float fixedX = Mathf.Clamp(stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation.x, stickRotation.x-30, stickRotation.x+30);
                float fixedY = Mathf.Clamp(stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation.y, stickRotation.y-30, stickRotation.y+30);
                float fixedZ = Mathf.Clamp(stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation.z, stickRotation.z-30, stickRotation.z+30);
                stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(fixedX, fixedY, fixedZ);``` what im trying to do is limit stick_BottomRotationAnchor's rotation to 30 degrees in every direction from stickRotation

[violet rose]

"of the player" doesn't give folks a clearer picture of what you're looking to accomplish, those exact words were in both options Hanneseses inquired about

[delicate portal]

Surely, or make an event what serializes it

[round arch]

I'm Working on a Project, where I need to create geometry In-Game. I have the basic mesh creating working, but I get this weird Half shaded rendering. Anyone know, what could cause this? As far as I can tell, all the vertex- and face normals are pointing in the correct direction.

The pink and orange lines show the vertex and face normals. (Using a script I found Online)

[tiny terrace]

hello, is there a way to see what the current PlayerPrefs in a machine contains using code?

like what attributes does it have and other stuff like that?

[wooden minnow]

how would i take an object's current rotation at 1 moment, and then stopping it from going under -30 or over 30 degrees in every direction from that saved rotation

ive been trying for 4 hours and NOTHING WORKS

[frail hawk]

are you looking for a key in the playerprefs? if so: https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/PlayerPrefs.HasKey.html

[burnt vapor]

You can't get a list of all the prefs on a machine. You can only get them by a specific key

[frail hawk]

you can browse the registry tho : HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Unity\UnityEditor\CompanyName\ProjectName'

[burnt vapor]

Users are not going to appreciate you looking through the registry keys.

[wooden minnow]

anyone please help nothing im doing is working

i have no idea what to do

[frail hawk]

you have to clamp the rotation Elmishh

[wooden minnow]

thats what ive been trying to do for 4 hours

[frail hawk]

show what you have so far

[burnt vapor]

Share your !code of what you have tried so far.

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[wooden minnow]

every time ive tried it either used Quaternion.Identity as the center rotation or it just didnt decided to not rotate at all and just stay still

[wooden minnow]

ive already just reset my code back so currently i have nothing

anything helps

[languid spire]

I'm pretty sure you were told yesterday that you cannot do that because of the way Quaternions work

[wooden minnow]

no?

wdym tho

[frail hawk]

why would it not be possible tho?

[languid spire]

I will explain
You are trying to do
Quaternion->Vector3->Clamp->Quaternion
This will not work because the Vector3 you will get from the Quaternion is almost certainly not what you are expecting to get

[foggy magnet]

One thing you can do, that might be a simple solution, is to make an empty GameObject which saves the orientation you are interested in.

Then in code, you can parent your object to this dummy object, and then the transform.localEulerAngles will now be the deviations from the saved orientation.

So something like this

public Transform myObject;
public Transform theDummyObject;

public void SaveTheOrientation() {
Transform currentParent = theDummyObject.parent;
theDummyObject.SetParent( myObject );
theDummyObject.position = Vector3.zero;
theDummyObject.localEulerAngles = Vector3.zero;
theDummyObject.SetParent( currentParent );
}

void ClampToNumberOfDegrees( float maxDegrees ) {
Transform currentParent = myObject.parent;
myObject.SetParent( theDummyObject );
Vecror3 localEulerAngles = myobject.localEulerAngles;
localEulerAngles.x = Mathf.Clamp( localEulerAngles.x, -maxDegrees, maxDegrees );
localEulerAngles.y = Mathf.Clamp( localEulerAngles.y, -maxDegrees, maxDegrees );
localEulerAngles.z = Mathf.Clamp( localEulerAngles.z, -maxDegrees, maxDegrees );
myObject.localEulerAngles = localEulerAngles;
myObject.SetParent( currentParent );
}

Now there are some extra nuances to this, such as what if there is a 30 degree rotation around both x AND y, does that mean the overall angle is now over 30, or is that acceptable, etc..

[wooden minnow]

currently im subtracting a quaternion from a quaternion to create a quaternion and then im putting it in transform.Rotate
so quaternion-quaternion->quaternion->vector3

[foggy magnet]

( I just typed that straight into discord, so may well have errors 🙂 )

[wooden minnow]

the rotation i want at the start is already saved in a Quaternion

currently what i do is

                rotationAddon = rightHandRotation * Quaternion.Inverse(prevRightHandRotation);
                stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.Rotate(-rotationAddon.eulerAngles.x, rotationAddon.eulerAngles.y, -rotationAddon.eulerAngles.z);``` to rotate my object, whenever i try clamp something goes wrong 100% of the time

[foggy magnet]

So, do you know how euler angles are different from quaternion representations of orientation?

Things like gimble lock, but also , having multiple sets of euler angles that will define the same orientation?

[wooden minnow]

                rotationAddon = rightHandRotation * Quaternion.Inverse(prevRightHandRotation);
                stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.Rotate(-rotationAddon.eulerAngles.x, rotationAddon.eulerAngles.y, -rotationAddon.eulerAngles.z);
                float fixedX = Mathf.Clamp(stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation.x, -30, 30);
                float fixedY = Mathf.Clamp(stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation.y, -30, 30);
                float fixedZ = Math.Clamp(stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation.z, -30, 30);
                stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(fixedX, fixedY, fixedZ);``` whats wrong with this

[languid spire]

you are trying to clamp the quaternion

[foggy magnet]

I don't know the Quaternion math well enough to be able to understand that at first glance.

Can you tell me a bit more about the desired clamping that you need. Is it really a maximum on each of the euler angles?

Or is really just you don't want to be more than 30degrees away from the target orientation?

[wooden minnow]

that doesnt help

[wooden minnow]

i rotate the object to a position and then i want from there for it to be rotateable but only up to 30 degrees -30 in every axis

what happens now is that it locks at quaternion.identity and doesnt rotate at all

[foggy magnet]

Ok, well did you see the code I posted earlier, that should what you want.

[languid spire]

look

float fixedX = Mathf.Clamp(stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation.x, -30, 30);
                float fixedY = Mathf.Clamp(stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation.y, -30, 30);
                float fixedZ = Math.Clamp(stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation.z, -30, 30);
                stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.rotation = Quaternion.Euler(fixedX, fixedY, fixedZ);

transform.rotation is a Quaternion, you try to clamp the internal values as if they were euler angles which they are not so you cannot do
you then use the clamped values as if they were euler angles

[wooden minnow]

i have no idea whats going in the code before

[waxen aurora]

Is it possbile to crate a SpeedTest method to check user speed from Unity?
I've done this simple script:

{
    private string url = "https://link.testfile.org/15MB";

    void Start()
    {
        StartCoroutine(DownloadAndMeasureSpeed(url));
    }

    IEnumerator DownloadAndMeasureSpeed(string url)
    {
        Debug.LogWarning("SpeedTest STARTED");

        UnityWebRequest request = UnityWebRequest.Get(url);

        float startTime = Time.time;
        yield return request.SendWebRequest();

        if (request.result == UnityWebRequest.Result.Success)
        {
            float downloadTime = Time.time - startTime;
            float fileSizeInBytes = request.downloadedBytes;
            float fileSizeInMB = fileSizeInBytes / (1024 * 1024);
            float downloadSpeedMBs = fileSizeInMB / downloadTime;
            float downloadSpeedMbs = downloadSpeedMBs * 8; // Convert from MB/s to Mb/s


            Debug.LogWarning("File size: " + fileSizeInMB + " MB");
            Debug.LogWarning("Download speed: " + downloadSpeedMBs + " MB/s");
            Debug.LogWarning("Download speed: " + downloadSpeedMbs + " Mb/s");
        }
        else
        {
            Debug.LogError("Error downloading file: " + request.error);
        }
    }
}```
the problem is that there is a significant discrepacy between this output (15Mb/s) and a google speedtest (50Mb/s)
does exists some better ways to do it? and could it be reliable in the first place?

[wooden minnow]

so what should i do?

its been like 4 or 5 hours of me failing to clamp a single object im not in mood for the most cryptic, unhelpful responses i barely know how quaternions work to rotate an object, let alone know the big difference between Quaternion() and Quaternion.Euler()

[foggy magnet]

is it possibl the google speedtest is opening multiple connections to download simulataneously, and therby maxing out your connection. But a sinlge download on its own might not do that?

[foggy magnet]

The code I posted shoul work for you. If you want to use your already saved quaternion, then just add something like:

dummyObject.rotation = yourSavedQuaternion.

And the rest will still work as it is.

[wooden minnow]

i have no idea what is going on in that code

[wooden minnow]

idk what youre doing in savetheorientation and barely know what is going on ClampToNumberOfDegrees i dont know why youre parenting stuff

[foggy magnet]

So, the idea is. If you parent objectA under objectB. Then set the orientation of B to zero ( or quaternion identyy ) , Then objectB will now have the same orientation as objectA, even when you reparent it back to where it was before.

[wooden minnow]

why

[foggy magnet]

When you reparent an GameObject in Unity, then Unity makes all the necessary calculations to mainain the world position, and world orientation ( and world Scale ) of that object.

Just like if you were doing in the Editor.

This means, you can use this sideeffect to essentially, copy the orientation of one object to another.
And the useful part for you, is that while the object has been temporailly reparented, the localEulerAngles will NOW show the angles the object is rotated from that parent. Which I think is exactly what you need to perform your clamping.

[wooden minnow]

object.transform.rotation = otherobject.transform.rotation?

[foggy magnet]

( however there are a few caveats, to do with things like gimble lock, and multiple sets eulerAngles defiing the same orienation. Wether or not this is a problem for you, depends on what you are ultimately going to achieve with it )

[wooden minnow]

but overly complex

[foggy magnet]

The parenting is needed, so you can see the localEulerAngles as deviations from the parent.

[wooden minnow]

what?

[foggy magnet]

Well, think about the eulerAngles. -180,0,60
Is that past your 30degree limit or not?

[wooden minnow]

ok listen i have 2 objects a stick object that i see and an invisible bottom object right at the bottom of the stick that i rotate, the stick is a child of the bottom object so when i rotate the bottom one the stick seems to be rotating around a center point

I want the bottom object to only rotate 30 degrees in each directions (+ and -)

[foggy magnet]

Just to confirm, this is in 3D right? not 2D?

[wooden minnow]

yes

you know how flight sticks work?

like jet ones

[foggy magnet]

Yes , ok I got you. And what about the rotation of stick around itself. A flight stick can swivel around its own axis normally right?

[wooden minnow]

wdym

what im making is a 3d flight stick that once i press the grip button starts copying the rotation of my hand up to 30 and -30 degrees in each axis

and when i release the grip it returns to a pre saved rotation

now cs rotationAddon = rightHandRotation * Quaternion.Inverse(prevRightHandRotation); stick_BottomRotationAnchor.transform.Rotate(-rotationAddon.eulerAngles.x, rotationAddon.eulerAngles.y, -rotationAddon.eulerAngles.z); this makes it perfect besides the fact that it doesnt stop at 30 degrees in every axis

[foggy magnet]

Ok, so, how about making your hierarchy like

swivelNodeX ( simply clamp the eulerangles to ( -30,30) for x, and 0 for y and z
swivelNodeY. ( similar to above, but 0 for x and z, and (-30,30) for y
yourStickObject. ( nothing to clamp here )

[wooden minnow]

i dont understand

[foggy magnet]

just bear in mind, again, that this would be a square gate on your flightstick. If you really want circular gate then you'd be clamping the sqrt(x^2 + y^2) to 30 ( I think?)

[wooden minnow]

square gate is what i want

[foggy magnet]

Try it in the editor now. Rather than having that single bottom gameobject, have two , the first one you move only the x euler cooridnate, the next one you move only the y

[wooden minnow]

ok

so in total 3 objects not including the stick itself for rotating?

[sharp oracle]

is there a channel to talk about unity problem/question but are not really code related ?

[foggy magnet]

3 including the stick.

The hierarchy could look like this

         SwivelJointX
                SwivelJointY
                       YourStickObject

You only need two, because you are really just rotating in two dimensions, forward.back , and left/right

If you did want to swivel the stick around it center axis, then you can do that directly on the YourStickObject

[wooden minnow]

im also rotating on the yaw axis

for example like this?

actually no i want yaw at the bottom

[foggy magnet]

Ok, so put your object under the Y rotation one.

Now just play around a bit in the editor.

If you set Z rotation to. 0,0,30

Is that what you want?

Now set it back to 0,0,0
And set X rotation to 30,0,0

Is that what you want?

Try a combination of values.

If it all looks good, then your clampin scripts are going to be super easy.

[wooden minnow]

and now i need to clamp each one right

[quiet ginkgo]

I'm trying to control a ball using torque
but the ball is going in random directions

[foggy magnet]

Yes, the claimping should be straightforward, but first play with in the Editor, and convince yourself this will work if you can clamp those angles.

[wooden minnow]

assuming i clamp it corrently but i dont know if i am

[quiet ginkgo]

plz help

[foggy magnet]

something like this

class ClampEuler : MonoBehaviour {
public Vector3 maxAngles;

void Update() {
transform.localEulerAngles = new Vector3(
Mathf.Clamp( transform.localEulerAngles.x, -maxAgnles.x, maxAngles.x ),
Mathf.Clamp( transform.localEulerAngles.y, -maxAgnles.y, maxAngles.y ),
Mathf.Clamp( transform.localEulerAngles.z, -maxAgnles.x, maxAngles.z );
}

Now put tht on each of your Z rotation, X rotation objects

And set the public varabile to ( 30, 0, 0 ) for the X rotation object, and similarly for the y and z

[wooden minnow]

considering everything rotates at a max of 30 i can make MaxAngles an int or a float

[foggy magnet]

keep it as a float, because the Mathf.Clamp will be happier with all the paramaters being floats

[wooden minnow]

but after clamping how do i rotate it?

do i need to rotate it?

[foggy magnet]

No need to rotate it.

[wooden minnow]

would what you said work like this?

or do i need to do it differently

[wooden minnow]

ok i just reread im confused

what is transform.localEulerAngles supposed to be?

SmoMo?

[wooden minnow]

nothing is working

[lapis grail]

can you try fixedupdate

[keen dew]

That would also make it go in random directions, only at different speed

[rancid tinsel]

if you type "yes" in lowercase this should skip the whileloop no?

or did I make some mistake

[north kiln]

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[rancid tinsel]

thank you

[languid spire]

yes != YES so your while loop will execute

[rancid tinsel]

its .ToUpper();

turns out its because i put || instead of &&

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/pqaeomgoqm can someone tell me why my groundcheck does not work?

my in game platform is marked ground too

[neon ivy]

I made a little shader with a bool that I want to control from a script but it says that material.SetBool() isn't a thing, despite it being a field in the shadergraph

[fossil drum]

Doubtful that a 0.2mm sphere would detect collisions, why not make it a bit bigger?

[final kestrel]

I tried to make it bigger but it still does not work.

.2 mm looks like this

[fossil drum]

Well it still doesn't hit the ground?
Anyhow, log Physics.CheckSphere(_groundCheck.position, .002f, _groundLayer); every frame, I want to see if this is the problem or your canJump bool.

[final kestrel]

all right. I will do it. When I start my game the character lands on the ground btw.

Wait how do i log that?

Okay its false

I did change its size. Made it bigger and it still is false.

[fossil drum]

Well, there's your problem.

Oh, you use Physics, and not Physics2D

[final kestrel]

This is a 3d game

Its ortographic because I wanted to show how my ground check looks

[fossil drum]

Okay, then remove _groundLayer

[final kestrel]

Ah okay I did not actually assign the ground layer. Only changed tag to ground. My bad sorry.

Thanks for the help.

[fossil drum]

[final kestrel]

private void Jump()
{   
    {
        _rb.AddForce(transform.up * _jumpForce, ForceMode.Impulse);
    }

}

private void Move()
{
    Vector3 forward = transform.forward;
    float currentYVel = _rb.velocity.y;
    Vector3 newVelocity = transform.forward * _moveSpeed;
    newVelocity.y = currentYVel;
    _rb.velocity = newVelocity;
    //_rb.velocity = transform.forward * _moveSpeed;
}

Am I over doing something here?

regarding jumping.

[foggy magnet]

Can you try it with using AddVelocity() insitead. It will make your code. a bit smaller as well.

[queen adder]

jumping looks alright

[foggy magnet]

so something like

private void Move() {
_rb.AddVelocity( transform.forward * _moveSpeed );
}

[final kestrel]

My jump was working all fine till i figured the ground check.

[queen adder]

show us ground check

[foggy magnet]

What does your ground check look like?

[final kestrel]

https://hatebin.com/ojczyzzwrq its here

[foggy magnet]

(oh snap 🙂 )

[keen dew]

AddVelocity isn't a thing

[final kestrel]

My character just flies upwards

[foggy magnet]

Oh, ok, I got confused then.

Don't you want to set
canJump = false

inside your if

[final kestrel]

I thought IsGrounded's false return would do it already?

well its working now that I set it false. Why?

[foggy magnet]

But you are setting it to true, and it is staying true for ever

Like, the player presses jump, you set the bool to true

but then you need to set it to false once you perform the jump

otherise it will keep happening every frame

( Also, remember that for each Update() there may be many calls to FixedUpdate() that happen )

[foggy surge]

What should I be learning I never coded before

[queen adder]

did you set layers correctly?

[final kestrel]

Yes. I did. SmoMo's suggestion worked.

[foggy magnet]

What kind of game would you like to make?

[final kestrel]

Ahh okay. Thanks a lot.

[foggy surge]

2d

[foggy magnet]

2D is good place to start if you are new to making games. What kind of game are you thinking of, platform, RPG, something else?

[final kestrel]

What I thought was that. IsGrounded() would return true only if it touches the ground. When I jump it would return false so I did not have to set the canJump true again

[foggy surge]

Something like anime pixel fighting

[foggy magnet]

So you could have done this:

if( Input.GetKeydown etc.... && isGrounded() ) {
canJump=true;
} else {
canJump = false;
}

And that is probably closer to what you were initially intending.

But the problem with that, is if lets say, there are 3 FixedUpdate() calls before the next Update(), you would still be applying the impulse 3 times, before the Update() is called again and sets canJump to false.

Best solution is to set it to false in FixedUpdate() right after the Jump()

[final kestrel]

yes I tried to set it on false in update but yes It acted up

Thanks.

[foggy magnet]

you are welcome 🙂

[foggy magnet]

Oh, so like a Stret Fighter 2 kind of game?

[foggy surge]

Yeah

[foggy magnet]

There is tutorial here, but it is for a 3D Street Fighter style game in Unity : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyJFySbLFVE

It might be useful to watch thouhg, even if you make it 2D in the end you might learn a lot of the same concepts.

This one here, shows you how to organise animations for a 2D fighting game : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYCjmVhiLaM

And finally, here is one for 2D in Unity : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QfxdUpVh5I

[foggy surge]

Thanks

[tender stag]

how do i call TurnOff when no items are in input cells?
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/hapawotefo.csharp

at the moment the scrapper stays on after its done processing all items

somewhere in the code i need to check if all input cells have no item inside, and that the scrapper is turnedOn

is this the best way to do it?

[gaunt ice]

goto

int i=0;
for(...){work and if(some thing)goto L1;}
goto L2;
L1:
for(remaining i){work}
TurnOff();
L2:

[modest dust]

won't a break; be enough

to get out of the loop

[mossy arrow]

How do i fix this i want it where it does not do what it is doing

[violet creek]

Is it possible to use Character's Slope limit to detect if the floor underneath is too steep and make the player slider along?

[swift crag]

this is extremely vague

explain your problem

[swift crag]

The slope limit determines how steep of a slope you can climb, afaik

What you can do is look at the parameter passed with https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/CharacterController.OnControllerColliderHit.html

specifically, https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/ControllerColliderHit-normal.html

The normal is a vector pointing straight out of the surface you hit

[violet creek]

Oh, that sounds like what I need, thank you : )

[swift crag]

You can do Vector3.Angle(hit.normal, Vector3.up) to get the angle between the surface and the up-vector

[ashen ferry]

your gray square has same script on it or what

[swift crag]

you might need to be careful if you call Move more than once per frame

you could get multiple messages

[violet creek]

Alright

[rancid wave]

Hey guy's anyone know what i am doing wrong here my Character keep falling down. How would i fix this without Friezing the Z.

[rancid wave]

Look's Like you have the same movement Code on the Gray Square.

[swift crag]

do you mean that your Rigidbody-based character is rolling onto its side?

[rancid wave]

Yes heres a vid

[swift crag]

freeze X and Z rotation

Y rotation can stay unfrozen, so that it can pivot

[round arch]

Anyone know what could cause this half shaded effect?Its a custom Mesh. The Pink and Orange Lines show the vertex and face normals, so that shouldn't be the problem.

[rancid wave]

Thank you!

[zealous oxide]

https://hastebin.com/share/unubigehot.csharp hey peeps, i've made a camera zoom script for a platformer. any tips to improve it? (i've got a separate camera follow script)

[tender stag]

why does the furnace turn on and off when i put a fuel item into the second cell? but it works great when it gets put into the first one
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/esisilikop.csharp

im so confused

its something in HandleFuel

[timber tide]

Are the normals correct without the shader

probably best to post your shader code in #archived-shaders

[round arch]

@Mao I'm not using a custom shader, It's the standard Opaque shader that comes with the editor.

And, yes I believe the normals are right. I added a script (I found on the Internet) to show the normals. (Orange and Pink Rays)

[timber tide]

Oh, I see. How about any other unity shaders, same thing?

[round arch]

I'm not sure what you are refering to but noting special going on with the material/shader

Just the Geometry (mesh) is custom. (Computed at Runtime)

[timber tide]

I mean, you've got specular highlights there and reflections tick, is that not a shader?

[tender stag]

Mao do you think you could help me quickly?

[timber tide]

Usually when I did opengl stuff, that stuff was all compute shader, only geometry data/mesh data was just colors/normals/uvs

but im rusty

[timber tide]

what's up

[tender stag]

why is this happening? i cant use any other fuel cell other than the first one

look at the console when i try and turn the furnace on the the item is in the second cell

Debug.Log("Now"); is on line 146```
https://hastebin.skyra.pw/puwequgojo.csharp

the cells are correctly set up

[round arch]

Yes I'm sure there is a shader connected in the background. But I didn't touch that part. Its all defaults Material of the Unity Editor.

[timber tide]

I just know that if you're using reflections, that's some heavy computation

[round arch]

I just tried torning off the specular highlights there and reflections, and it didn't change anything.

[summer stump]

I don't think you want a foreach. I'm just heading out, but a quick glance looks like you're trying to process the whole list at once. I think you want:

Get fuelCells[0]
Process that
Wait till done
Remove it/clean list
Get the new fuelCells[0]

But, I didn't look thoroughly, so I'm not sure. Good luck

Also, maybe a queue would be better?

[timber tide]

So I'm trying to understand, your second slot isn't consuming the item?

[tender stag]

its starting to

but then it gets turned off

this gets called

[summer stump]

Oh, I misunderstood the issue i guess lol. Ignore me then

[tender stag]

as soon as i turn the furnace on

and i have the item in the second cell

where the red is im checking every fuel cell if it has an item

and then the logic happens

but it doesnt return

on the second and so on cell

only on the first one

[summer stump]

Where do you decrement fuelTime?
Is see this:
fuelTime = Mathf.Max(fuelTime - Time.deltaTime

But that minus sign doesn't actually reduce the time

[tender stag]

it does

[summer stump]

Oh, duh, yeah, you assign the result. I gotta stop trying to help while getting ready lol

[timber tide]

That looks good

Im confused lol

[tender stag]

only works for the first slot

look what happens when i do it in second

this runs

because for some reason it doesnt return

[timber tide]

this is one of those things where you need to use vs debug tool

and just throw breakpoints all over

[tender stag]

like i grayed this out

and this is what happens now

the furnace doesnt turn off anymore and the fuelItem is not getting set to null

[timber tide]

I could run through the logic of how I would do it

So you've turned it on and it's actively checking both slots, right?

[summer stump]

This will be the easiest and best way to figure it out
#💻┃code-beginner message

[timber tide]

I assume you can have both slots active at once, and when a fuel added is added, you prevent checking of that particular slot until the timer zeroes out.

There is no real race conditions or anything, I guess you could create more materials in the end? But that's extra logic (need to dump the materials outside)

Could even split it into two independent functions if you want to do that to make it easier.

[wary sable]

is there a way to select serialized scripts from a wrapper class? I am making an inventory system, and currently I have a serialized class Item that has an instance decleared in a mono attached to a game object. Obviously I want to have different types of items all with different stats, animations etc... Would there be a way to choose which serialized class you want to wrap onto the G.O. (choosing between children of the item class), or would I have to make wrappers for each child?

Example of item class:

[Serializeable]
public class Item{
}```
Example of "wrapper"
```using unity;
public class myWrapper : monobehavior{
  public Item item;
}

[timber tide]

Any more examples because I'm thinking generics

[rich adder]

what like scriptable objects?

[swift crag]

sounds like an application for [SerializeReference]

you want to store one of many possible plain-old C# classes

i'm using it to build boss attacks. notice how this list contains both SchemeSequenceSteps and SchemeWaitSteps

Unity does not provide an inspector GUI for [SerializeReference]

[wary sable]

thats super cool!

[swift crag]

I'm using one provided by the Animancer package. You probably don't want to buy a $90 animation package for just that :p

but

I used to use a very very similar implementation

[timber tide]

unity really needs to up their gui tools already

[wary sable]

sort of, but I want the variables to be dynamic and save between sessions. Since scriptable objects only save to memeory, changes to variables will be lost between sessions

[swift crag]

I think it was...

https://github.com/TextusGames/UnitySerializedReferenceUI

[swift crag]

well, hang on a minute

[languid gate]

does anyone know why i cannot create a pipeline asset (2d render) i have googled it and other people have had this issue but i couldnt find a solution could someone explain i have already installed universal renderer as you can see

[swift crag]

If you store an instsance of Item in an object in your scene, changes aren't going to persist from play session to play session

That data is part of the scene.

[trail heart]

The shading is what it looks like when you have normals of a cube merged and pointing away from two faces like this
To my eye it looks like the debug normal displays you have are not necessarily correct

[wary sable]

oh. I should have also noted that the item instances are being put into an inventory list inside of a singleton...

[swift crag]

If you want to have persistent data, you will need to serialize and deserialize it yourself. Json.NET is an excellent choice for this.

it's like JsonUtility, except that it hasn't been hit with a sledgehammer

[slender nymph]

https://github.com/vertxxyz/Vertx.SerializeReferenceDropdown
Here's an alternative that's at least slightly more recent

[swift crag]

ooh, neat

[timber tide]

That's pretty interesting. I was going to suggest opening the file and reading the normals but the debug looked so good.

[swift crag]

also, looking at this again, I don't think it was actually this one

[wary sable]

sweet! thank you

[swift crag]

The general idea is that they let you pick from one of many types to display in the inspector

[SerializeReference] lets Unity correctly handle derived types. Normally, it just winds up serializing the static type of the field.

[wary sable]

ok, but just to clarify, my current system will be able to store data provided I use json tools to serialize it myself?

[round arch]

@trail heart Yes, that looks exactly like my Issue. So you think the (vertex) normals of the "Side Faces" of the cube are pointing up and down instead of "out"?

[swift crag]

If the data lives in the scene, then it will die when the scene unloads

(and it'll definitely die when the game quits)

oh wait, I misread you -- you were asking if storing the data in JSON would work

Then yes. You'd serialize the inventory data when you save the game, and deserialize it when you load the game

[trail heart]

Yes

[round arch]

@trail heart Sadly I have to leave now, but thanks alot for this tip👍

[swift crag]

[SerializeReference] just lets you serialize the (possibly polymorphic) field correctly, so that it can be shown in the inspector and stored in the scene.

[wary sable]

gotcha, well thank you for the answers as always ❤️

[dawn sparrow]

Hi, I've come across a really confusing issue. I'm trying to subsribe 5 objects - each having this UI scripts attached it it - to the onCharacterSlotItemChange event. For some reason even though all five are calling the subscribe (line 39), when onCharacterSlotItemChange is invoked, only 3 of the 5 are informed

https://pastebin.com/vLhHfa9m

I've tried testing a bunch of things, only thing I can guess is happening is somehow two of the five are unsubscribing themselves

[swift crag]

When does onCharacterItemSlotChange get invoked?

[timber tide]

Are they subscribing at all?

[swift crag]

I'm wondering if it's happeng in someone's Start method

[timber tide]

All 5

[swift crag]

or as a result of someone's Start method

[dawn sparrow]

Inside my SetCharacterEquipmentSlot() function at the end

[polar acorn]

Put a log in Start and OnDestroy, log the object name and which method it is. See if you get exactly five more subscribes than unsubscribes

[swift crag]

you should log when it's called and when the subscriptions are made

[timber tide]

Can use debug tool and stick them on the subscriptions too

[dawn sparrow]

Yeah, I've confirmed that all five scripts subscribe their functions to the event

[swift crag]

how?

your code does not demonstrate this; did you use a debugger?

[dawn sparrow]

Right above the subscribe I print something to see if it's being called

And all five print

[swift crag]

well, not in this code you don't. show us the code you're actually running right now.

[dawn sparrow]

This is the only difference here

[polar acorn]

Now put a log in the unsubscribe, and in the thing that's calling the event

[languid gate]

why doesnt this come up for me? this is my project with all the correct packages installed any ideas on what the issue could be?

[dawn sparrow]

Tried that too, doesn't get called untill I stop the application

[polar acorn]

Okay, and with a log where you call the event, does that happen after five subscribes?

[timber tide]

2020 editor, probably need to upgrade

[swift crag]

you're using an old editor.

[languid gate]

oh thanks

[swift crag]

The 2D Renderer is relatively new.

[dawn sparrow]

I included a log inside the subscribed event like so:

Results in 3 logs

2 are missed

[swift crag]

and in what order do these messages appear?

show us the console.

turn off Collapse.

[dawn sparrow]

Here is a new pastebin with logs at:

Line 39 -> on subscribe
Line 58 -> on subscribed func call
Line 82 -> on unsub

At line 58, I included the index of the object (each of the five objects have a unique index between 0 and 4)

https://pastebin.com/FZ7L9C6E

[swift crag]

there is an exception. is that causing it?

it's definitely causing it.

fix the error

[polar acorn]

Oh you've been getting an error the whole time

that's the problem

Woulda been nice to know about it

[dawn sparrow]

The exception occurs at line 72, after the log at line 58 is called

[swift crag]

so what?

the exception is thrown up the call stack until someone catches it

[dawn sparrow]

So the log should be called before any error occurs

[swift crag]

your method is gone

[dawn sparrow]

Why would the log be innaccurate ?

[final kestrel]

I learned I cannot Invoke("string", delay) methods with parameters. How can I achieve that in other ways?

[swift crag]

when you add these five subscribers, C# produces a single method that winds up calling all five methods

an exception will, as it always does, interrupt this

[sacred zenith]

Hey guys,
For games like farming simulator, in which the terrain texture is altered all the time, is there something I need to know about Unity's terrain system?
Or the basics of the tutorial is enough? I am worried about updating the splatmap all the time

[rich adder]

coroutine

[final kestrel]

Thanks.

[swift crag]

i can't think of anything obvious

[swift crag]

OnCharacterSlotChange throws the exception. onCharacterItemSlotChange throws it because nothing in it catches the exception. Whoever invoked onCharacterItemSlotChange throws the exception. So on and so forth, all the way until Unity eventually eats it.

[sacred zenith]

Cool, thanks!

[swift crag]

Oh, one thing

https://docs.unity3d.com/2022.3/Documentation/ScriptReference/TerrainTools.TerrainPaintUtility.html

TerrainPaintUtility lets you paint on terrain textures with a material. This is a lot nicer than manually editing the splatmap (and is a lot faster, too)

it can also correctly affect multiple terrains at once

It took me a fair while to figure out, though

I'm still a little rough with painting on textures

[sacred zenith]

Damn, this might be the edge I needed! I noticed some lagging when I coded the splatmap update

[swift crag]

#⛰️┃terrain-3d probably has some people who know how to use it more than I do

I used it to stamp textures on the ground to make footsteps for a giant enemy

as well as to deform the terrain

[polar acorn]

Once an error happens the event utterly dies

It cannot continue to call other callbacks

[sacred zenith]

Aight, thank you! This will help

[timber tide]

c# is nice enough to catch those errors for you but rule of thumb that you've got a memory error, treat it as if your program has impoded ;)

[swift crag]

it's not that you've experienced a "really bad" exception or a "safe" exception

it's an uncaught exception. everything goes bye-bye.

Although, I guess it's fair to phrase it that way.

[polar acorn]

The exception is "caught" meaning that the runtime has basically Old Yeller'd that entire function

Unity just told that event to close its eyes and think of the rabbits

[swift crag]

every function going all the way back to the point where Unity called your Update method

[livid jacinth]

I'm getting an issue where I can't attach a script to an object because the script class can not be found, and the inspector says no MonoBehaviour scripts are in the file and I'm not sure why? the names are matching exactly and I do have MonoBehaviour in the class, I'm not sure what else to check

[swift crag]

or however else this thing was originally called

[swift crag]

Do you have any compile errors?

[polar acorn]

Do you have any compile errors

[swift crag]

clear the console and look for any errors.

Ensure that you haven't filtered them out. Light-gray buttons are enabled. In this case, errors are hidden.

[livid jacinth]

Ooooh okay, let me try that

[dawn sparrow]

Ahhhhhh

[dawn sparrow]

Sorry for disappearing, thank you for this info

Didn't realize that's how it worked

[swift crag]

This is how all of your code works.

Exceptions are not to be confused with just calling Debug.LogError. That just prints a message with a red icon to the console

if you use gameObject.CompareTag with a bogus tag, you get an error in the console

but it doesn't throw an exception

[dawn sparrow]

I just assumed that since the error came after the log, and since they're all seperate scripts, the log was accurate

[swift crag]

foo.DoThing();
bar.DoThing();
baz.DoThing();

if bar.DoThing() throws an exception, baz.DoThing() will never be reached

exceptions are not confined to object instances (what you called "scripts")

[dawn sparrow]

Yeah see that's where I had a misconception

[swift crag]

the call stack is the sequence of methods that were called to reach you

an exception will unwind the call stack until it's caught

[dawn sparrow]

I knew that code after an error isn't called, but I thought seperate scripts wouldn't affect one another, so I could ignore the error

anyhow probably a pretty good rule of thumb to fix red things first before worrying about why your code isn't working lol

Thanks for the help

[swift crag]

no prob

and yes, that's a good idea: attack the first error

you'll often have hundreds of errors: one of type A, and many of type B

but the second error is just a consequence of the first error

[dawn sparrow]

Yeah I see that now

Thank you

[livid jacinth]

I've been working on something for a little while, I saw a comment on reddit saying I should be able to do this, but maybe they weren't correct. I'm trying to use a GameManager script as kind of like a hub to manage different things like what day it is, currency, etc. So I'm testing it out and my GameManager script looks like this: https://pastebin.com/u3BEjUQJ

My CurrencyManager script looks like this: https://pastebin.com/gkHG0wes

And the third script I'm trying to access it through looks like this: https://pastebin.com/1A1dWJRU

In the third script I'm getting an error that says "An object reference is required for the non-static field, method, or property 'GameManager.currencyManager'". I have the CurrencyManager script assigned in the inspector in Unity and I'm not entirely sure what's missing. I can put currencyManager as static, but that kind of makes having GameManager pointless. Is this even possible to do?

[river roost]

This is where the singleton pattern comes in. You have to create a static reference to the GameManager instance:

// in GameManager
public static GameManager Instance { get; private set; }

void Awake() {
  Instance = this;
  ...
}

And use it like this:

GameManager.Instance.curencyManager.AddCurrency(30);

Many, including me, are not big fans of this pattern. This is a create article on the pros and cons of singletons https://gamedevbeginner.com/singletons-in-unity-the-right-way/

[swift crag]

GameManager is a type name. You don't have a specific GameManager.

So, you can only access static members from it.

[livid jacinth]

Ooooh ok I haven't looked into instance a whole bunch, I was having it attached to a GameManager object that is on the main screen and I just had DontDestroyOnLoad, I'll look into this some

[timber tide]

singleton everything

[livid jacinth]

Thanks!

[swift crag]

also, singletons are fine. the example in that article makes no sense. the example provided (adding extra options to a 'play sound' method) happens in literally any case where you use the same type in many places.

use a singleton when there is a single instance of something that everyone can unambiguously talk to

if this is not the case, do not use a singleton

that's what's going to cause you problems

(moving from a singleton to a non-singleton can be reasonably painless, especially compared to just having a class with lots of static members)

[timber tide]

Any type of pooling is a good example of a singleton

[swift crag]

you just need to replace every instance of SingletonType.Instance with a specific reference

[timber tide]

audio, vfx, enemy templates, item containers

[river roost]

You're way better off with scriptable objects in my opinion

[swift crag]

what?

object pooling has nothing to do with scriptable objects

an object pool is a collection of instances you can hand out when needed, instead of instantiating or constructing them on-demand

[river roost]

Yeah

[timber tide]

audio is actually a little tricky, you wanna smart pool it usually

bad idea to cache too much of it

[river roost]

If you use singletons, you can't have different pools with the same type, unless you make a new type for every poolable object

[swift crag]

well, yes: you no longer have a singleton anymore

so you shouldn't use a singleton

I would put multiple pools onto a singleton instance.

If I needed to be able to assign a specific pool to each user of pooled objects, then I would not use a singleton at all

[timber tide]

Yeah, if you have a base enemy template, you don't really have much of a type difference if they all derive similarly.

[zenith cypress]

If you key it with an instance, or an id, sure ya can. We do this in our game and it works fine, and is still a singleton :)

[swift crag]

if we're talking about dangerous patterns that blow up in your face, then abusing scriptable objects for mutable data is a great example

you can get very interesting surprise behavior when the SOs are loaded and unloaded

(although, using SOs as keys is perfectly reasonable)

(in which case you'd be showing the key to a singleton pool manager, of course..)

[river roost]

So your singleton would look like this?

public class PoolManager : MonoBehaviour {
  public static PoolManager Instance { get; private set; }

  public ObjectPool<Enemy> NormalEnemyPool { get; private set; }
  public ObjectPool<Enemy> FastEnemyPool { get; private set; }
  ...
}

[timber tide]

Single enemy type, your SO decides the composition/components

[river roost]

So you add and remove components when you setup the enemy??

[timber tide]

advisiable you don't swap too many components then it becomes a question if instantiating is faster

[river roost]

yeah

You're gonna have different prefabs for each enemy type

[timber tide]

Depends on how you want to make your game, but swapping out a model and stats could be all you need to do.

[river roost]

if you have a very simple game i guess

[swift crag]

in this case, I would probably just make the object pool store a dictionary of pools

Dictionary<GameObject, ObjectPool<GameObject>>

You'd pass it a prefab reference and get back an instance.

It might instantiate a new instance, or it might grab one from the corresponding ObjectPool

(i might use a more specific type, like Enemy)

This would let you pool any prefab you want

[swift crag]

so this would neatly replace Instantiate(myPrefab) with EnemyPooler.Instance.Get(myPrefab)

[livid jacinth]

Thanks guys, I remember seeing that it can backfire so I'm just trying to keep it as like a hub to be able to manage things like inventory/money management, keep the time of day from one scene to another, etc

I appreciate the help

[swift crag]

Just make sure that the singleton really is single!

Also, think a little about whether the singleton will always be available

(or at least, always be available when it might actually be used)

if an enemy makes use of FooSingleton, and it's not reasonable for FooSingleton to always exist when an enemy exists, something is wrong

[zenith cypress]

Yeah ours uses Component so we can just pass in a component-typed prefab

[swift crag]

oh hey, there you go

[river roost]

This is one of the use cases for scriptable objects, instead of a dictionary with ids and stuff held somewhere in a singleton. It's really just personal preference in this case

[swift crag]

I do not see a use-case here.

at best you'd just have a singleton by a different name

[river roost]

[CreateGenericAssetMenu]
public class CustomObjectPool<T> : ScriptableObject, IDisposable where T : Component, IPoolable<T> {
    [Header("Object Pool")]
    [SerializeField] T _prefab;
    [SerializeField] bool _collectionCheck = true;
    [SerializeField] int _defaultCapacity = 10;
    [SerializeField] int _maxSize = 10000;
    [SerializeField] bool _clearOnSceneChange = true;

...
}
```This is how my pool looks like (using GenericUnityObjects to create generic instances). There's not much of a difference in practice. I does however allow me inherit from this to create specialized pools, such as a UI pool that efficiently disables and reparents objects to avoid uneccessary dirtying. It also lets me change the settings for any individual pool, but does require slightly more setup since you have to create an instance. I did however make a simple menu item to generate one from a component on a prefab

[delicate portal]

Hello! How can I visualize a capsuleCast? This just doesnt seem to work, the player is colliding with the thin air sometimes when there isnt something in front of it.
float moveDistance = movementSpeed * Time.deltaTime; float playerRadius = 0.05f; float playerHeight = 2f; bool canMove = !Physics.CapsuleCast(transform.position, transform.position + Vector3.up * playerHeight, playerRadius, moveDir, moveDistance); Debug.Log(canMove);

[swift crag]

Newer versions of Unity have a physics debugger window.

[river roost]

also use three ` to get nicer formatting on the code

[swift crag]

Make sure to enable the appropriate checkboxes

You will then see physics queries in the scene view. they'll only last for one frame, mind you

[delicate portal]

Looks like this for me

[swift crag]

That is the wrong tab.

[zenith cypress]

damn they are making my visual physics package obsolete 😠

[swift crag]

Go to the Queries tab.

[swift crag]

you're getting Sherlocked!

[delicate portal]

There is no other tabs

[swift crag]

Hm, okay, that's pretty interesting. I guess it is, ultimately, just two ways of doing very similar things

But not having scene objects is a plus...

[swift crag]

What version of unity is this?

[zenith cypress]

Seems before 2022.2

[river roost]

Have you seen this btw? It's either hell or heaven depending on who you ask https://github.com/SolidAlloy/GenericScriptableArchitecture

[swift crag]

If you can't use the physics debugger to visualize the cast, then the next best thing would be to use Debug.DrawRay

[swift crag]

I tried to grok this, but I really didn't enjoy it.

[zenith cypress]

my time to shine https://github.com/nomnomab/RaycastVisualization

[swift crag]

It's a really pleasant-sounding idea

It feels like I should like it

[nimble laurel]

Hey all, I’m pretty new at this still and I’m trying to follow different tutorials and the like to make my own multiplayer game using Netcode for GameObjects.
I’m wondering if anyone else has had trouble trying to understand how to implement item inventories like individual inventory, shared chests, and shop inventories.
Just at a basic level, should the inventories only be created/instantiated on the server side or should I be using things like IsOwner and instantiate the players personal inventory on the client and others on the server.
But then I have questions about sending the item data via rpcs and there’s a whole bunch of issues with serializing the stats of the item.
Has anyone seen someone’s project or tutorial that can really help me understand what I should be doing?
Again, super new so really appreciate and guidance and patience over my probably misunderstood ideas.

[river roost]

#archived-networking

[swift crag]

I might give that package a crack sometime soon.

[river roost]

I've built my game in a similar way but I just found this couple of days ago

[swift crag]

I was put off of using SOs for mutable data by their unpredictable behavior in-editor vs. in-game

in short, they live until you switch scenes or exit the editor

[river roost]

Yeah the lifetimes are weird

but the author of the package probably figured all that out

[swift crag]

yeah

[zenith cypress]

I think the only SO in our game that is mutable atm is for our settings. We assign it to places that need it, and when the game is going, they can have direct access to the updated data.

[swift crag]

I got burned by this in the middle of a game jam lol

so it made me very upset

[swift crag]

I am thinking about this.

[zenith cypress]

It's quite handy

[delicate portal]

This is 2021.3.23f1

[swift crag]

It seems kinda cool to just slot in an asset reference to provide a setting value

My current system is enum-based

[wild wolf]

@everyone Somebody can help me creating this moving mechanic for my game?
I have tried differents ways without any good result.
The reference movement is this game;

https://it.y8.com/games/roll_sky_ball_3d

[swift crag]

e.g. Prefs.GetPref<Pref.CameraShake>() returns Pref.CameraShake.On or Pref.CameraShake.Limited or Pref.CameraShake.Off

it uses the dynamic keyword

evil

[river roost]

ew

[zenith cypress]

[river roost]

ironically i use a singleton for my settings

[swift crag]

        toggle.onValueChanged.AddListener(delegate
        {
            if (toggle.isOn)
            {
                dynamic en = Convert.ChangeType(value, prefType);
                Prefs.SetPref(en);
            }
        });

SetPref is generic, so I need to be able to provide it a specific type

big scary

[river roost]

that's a bit cursed

[swift crag]

do you really want 100,000 people to try to help you with this?

[ember spear]

Can you change the disabled sprite of a button during runtime, and if so how would that be done?

[swift crag]

enums always make things a bit cursed

[zenith cypress]

Fen over here writing python types 😔

[wild wolf]

Just somebody to help me in this.

[swift crag]

do not attempt to ping the entire server

[wild wolf]

I have tried to tg only devs

[zenith cypress]

solution: don't tag anyone and wait

[swift crag]

consider reading #📖┃code-of-conduct before continuing your pinging spree

[ember spear]

I mean you're trying to tag like thousands of people lol

[swift crag]

then read #854851968446365696 for some advice on how to ask a useful question

so far you have not

[wild wolf]

sorry

[swift crag]

explain what, exactly, you want to accomplish, and what you've tried so far

[river roost]

You can do var enum = (T) (object) intValue where T : Enum

still a bit ugly

[swift crag]

The enclosing class isn't generic, though. It's just handed a Type variable

[wild wolf]

I want to reach that ball moving/control like in the game reference. I have tried so far to moving ball with physics without any good result.

[river roost]

I'm a bit confused, SetPref is generic right?

[swift crag]

It is. This code is attached to a Toggle used to pick from one of several options for a specific kind of preference

[river roost]

Yeah, so value is int?

[swift crag]

public Object value;

i'm going to stop looking at this code now 🫠

[river roost]

me too

[swift crag]

i imagine you can also attached a string key to the settings assets

for localization

I have to do some hilariously cursed things with attributes to attach that data to the enum types directly

[river roost]

I am proud of being able to do this though

[swift crag]

I auto-generate my entire settings menu

_prefTypes ??= AppDomain.CurrentDomain.GetAssemblies().Where(a => a.GetName().Name == "Preferences").SelectMany(t => t.GetTypes()).Where(t => t.IsEnum && t.Namespace == nameof(Pref)).ToList();

AAAAAAAAAAUGH

[river roost]

What the

[swift crag]

well, if each preference is an enum type

then i need to get all the enum types

[river roost]

is it worth it?

[swift crag]

probably not, in hindsight

but the system works pretty well

[zenith cypress]

The settings asset is just the data. Localization is handled elsewhere via the ui layer. But yeah you could if you wanted to.

[swift crag]

I might scrape it out and replace it with something SO-based

[river roost]

if it works it works

[swift crag]

I don't see why not.

[ember spear]

Seems like they use SpriteStates

at least for the spriteswap transition type

[swift crag]

yeah -- so you'd need to get the existing SpriteState, set a new disabledSprite, and then put the modified SpriteState back in

since it's a struct

[river roost]

public Sprite disabledSprite    { get { return m_DisabledSprite; } set { m_DisabledSprite = value; } }
```This is the stupidest property I've seen

[swift crag]

You often see properties used when you're actaully modifying something on the native-code side

not in this case

[zenith cypress]

This is just a field at that point

[slender nymph]

how is that stupid though? it's just a normal property. auto properties are a special thing that does this but just hides it for the compiler to do the work for you

[swift crag]

well, it does feel a little bit unnecessary

[ember spear]

🙃

[swift crag]

turning a field access into a method call

[river roost]

They could have done it like this:

public Sprite disabledSprite {
  get => m_DisabledSprite;
  set => m_DisabledSprite = value;
}
```or this:
```cs
[field: SerializeField]
public Sprite disabledSprite { get; set; }
```or just this:
```cs
public Sprite disabledSprite;

this is not decompiled

[delicate portal]

Hello! How can I visualize a capsuleCast? This just doesnt seem to work, the player is colliding with the thin air sometimes when there isnt something in front of it.

        float playerRadius = 0.05f;
        float playerHeight = 2f;
        bool canMove = !Physics.CapsuleCast(transform.position, transform.position + Vector3.up * playerHeight, playerRadius, moveDir, moveDistance);
        Debug.Log(canMove);```

[swift crag]

i suggested just using Debug.DrawRay

did that not work for you?

[zenith cypress]

https://github.com/nomnomab/RaycastVisualization

[swift crag]

also see:

jinx

[ember spear]

Please argue more over this so I may learn

[slender nymph]

1. is literally the same thing but requires expression body syntax which wasn't introduced until c# 6
2. is an auto property which i literally just described (and also wasn't introduced until .net 3)
3. is a field and it's against standard conventions to expose fields directly like that

[ember spear]

From the top rope!

[ashen ferry]

what yall tryna show with m_ prefix just googled its a left over from c++ or something but things like cinemachine fields have those prefixes

[river roost]

True, I didn't consider that it's old

[swift crag]

it's a naming convention, yes

cinemachine got rid of that in Cinemachine 3.0

[ashen ferry]

but its useless

[swift crag]

i mean, names are useless

you could name every member member_####

with an incrementing number

[ashen ferry]

typing m_ sounds like so much extra work instead of starting lower case or upper case according to scope lol

[short hazel]

C# fields should start with an underscore to differentiate them from local variables, so you're not that far from m_

[slender nymph]

i agree that the m_ prefix is unnecessary, but i will be cold in the ground before you take away my underscore prefix for fields

[swift crag]

In ye olden days, before we had lots of code analysis and good IDEs, it made more sense

hungarian notation shudder

[river roost]

There's also this Static fields start with s_.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/fundamentals/coding-style/identifier-names

but ive never seen anybody do it

[swift crag]

use C for classes

hmmm

this also takes about using the I prefix for interfaces

i'm not a huge fan of that

i don't care if Foo is an interface or not; I just want a Foo

[delicate portal]

How am I getting this error? I don't even have a cabbage variable in the script

[swift crag]

I do it anyway beacuse VSCode tells me to and I haven't bothered to configure it

[river roost]

But what if I(am)Foo

[swift crag]

well, show your code.

(make sure you've saved and reloaded the code in unity first)

[slender nymph]

isn't that bit actually about the convention used in the language specification and not actually a recommended naming convention for real code?

[short hazel]

If you don't want to put I before your interface name, go back to Java and send someone more appropriate for programming

[swift crag]

Ah, this is specifically for examples.

The preceding single-letter names are allowed only in the language reference section.

Me read good

[swift crag]

condemns you to 1000 years of Visual Basic

[short hazel]

Used it 1.5 years, it's enough, so 1000 would be my death

[clever jackal]

Hey can someone help me out plss.
I'm Trying to make the angle adjustment on click and drag shown in video in unity.... tried so hard but were not able to do that.... could someone help me out.. I'm a beginner..

[delicate portal]

Doesnt really seem to work, If I import the package, unity still doesnt know about 'VisualPhysics'

[zenith cypress]

Restart your IDE

[delicate portal]

Wait is it your tool?

[zenith cypress]

Yes

(bad timing, but i have to run to an appointment so I won't be around for a bit)

[delicate portal]

Ah sheesh

Alright nevermind

Wil talk to you if you get back, can you?

[zenith cypress]

Yeah looks like VS. Restart VS and it should be there. If you are using asmdefs, add the package asmdef to it, otherwise it should work fine. Otherwise add the namespace manually. 🫡 If you still have problems I will assist when I get back.

[delicate portal]

Thanks, will try everything

[ashen ferry]

what part u stuck at

[clever jackal]

I figured out how to scale on drag as shown on video but I want to fix the lines (thin cylinders) on the base and on the sphere on top so that it all moves and scales the triangle except the base when I move the sphere

[slender nymph]

you probably want to use line renderers for the lines and just set the first position as the position they connect to the base to and then just change the second position to the position of the sphere

[clever jackal]

let me see If I can Achieve that and I'll let you know

[craggy lava]

How do i change the color of the background color of a camera in C# script?

[ember spear]

Thanks again Fen this led to the feature working.

[swift crag]

👍

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Camera-backgroundColor.html

[swift crag]

You'll see this in a few different places

Newer C# has nice syntax for "updating" record classes and record structs, so that you don't have to make that local variable

I forget which version that appeared in

(and Unity doesn't use them, so w/e)

[ember spear]

I'll take a mental note of that, great tip.

[swift crag]

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/csharp/language-reference/builtin-types/record

ah, record struct is C#10

dies

[slender nymph]

records support with expressions in c# 9 but unity doesn't have full record support anyway. c# 10 introduced support for structs

[swift crag]

yeah

[slender nymph]

with expressions are so convenient though. i've been using them in godot quite a bit

[swift crag]

They remind me of Haskell

(non-derogatory)

:p

[stiff stump]

GameObject item = Resources.Load<GameObject>("Assets/Resources/Weapons/Pistol");
returns null not sure why i copied path file from the resource but still null

[swift crag]

Read the documentation for Resources.Load.

You are not using it correctly.

[slender nymph]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/Resources.Load.html

[stiff stump]

silly me 🤦‍♂️

[swift crag]

no prob, it's easy to do (:

[slender nymph]

yeah pretty common mistake

[swift crag]

Unity mashes all of your Resources folders into one big folder

and you address things relative to that

[swift crag]

(and always includes them in the build!)

[hushed hinge]

uhm, now I got a problem, after I got the screen scaling fixed, and when I test it out and press on the button player 1 for only 1 player to appear, both of the players appears instead. I did got all the help from someone on dms but after the screen scaling help, this happens, I don't get why

[fickle knoll]

i need some help, this is prob like the first lines of code that i have written but it does not work and i dont know why please help me.

public class FollowPlayer : MonoBehaviour
{
public GameObject player;
public float rotation = 36.0f;
private Vector3 offset = new Vector3(0, 11, -12);

void Start()
{

}


void LateUpdate()
{
    transform.position = player.transform.position + offset;
    transform.rotation = rotation;
}

}

[polar acorn]

!code

[eternal falcon]

Posting code

📃 Large Code Blocks
Large code blocks should be posted as links to services like:
https://gdl.space/, https://paste.ofcode.org/, https://hatebin.com/
https://paste.myst.rs/, https://hastebin.com/

📃 Inline Code
Surround code with three backquotes. Not quotation marks.
To get C# formatting the first line should only contain cs or csharp.
Add a comment with a line number if there is an error message.
```cs
// Your code here
```
Do not share screenshots of code unless requested.

[slender nymph]

obligatory "use cinemachine"

[polar acorn]

(Didn't fat finger it this time)

[fickle knoll]

can you explan it

im dumb

[polar acorn]

First off, share your code formatted properly according to the bot's instructions

Second what is the actual problem

[slender nymph]

i'm gonna go with, it's the compile error on the last line

[polar acorn]

||I know but I want them to mention that||

[fickle knoll]

it says "Cannot implicitly convert type 'float' to 'UnityEngine.Quaternion'"

[rich adder]

I don't understand what you need to do here. What is the end goal ?

[polar acorn]

Rotation is a Quaternion, you can't set it to a single number

[fickle knoll]

then what should i do

[slender nymph]

do you see this underlined in red in your code editor?

[fickle knoll]

nope

[slender nymph]

then configure your !IDE

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[fickle knoll]

what should i download

[rich adder]

follow the link for your code editor

[fickle knoll]

it dont work

[slender nymph]

what doesn't work?

[fickle knoll]

the red underline

[slender nymph]

did you go through the entire configuration guide for the correct code editor?

[fickle knoll]

yes

[slender nymph]

which one are you using?

[fickle knoll]

the 2022 version

[slender nymph]

screenshot the entire visual studio window with the solution explorer open and visible

[fickle knoll]

what is the solution explorer?

[rich adder]

its a tab/window inside on Visual Studio.

[slender nymph]

View > Solution Explorer

[fickle knoll]

im trying to screenshot but it aint working

[slender nymph]

is your snipping tool broken or something?

[fickle knoll]

im pressinmg print screen but nothing happening

[slender nymph]

oh my god

[fickle knoll]

the key on the keyboard

[slender nymph]

https://screenshot.help

[swift sedge]

ctrl - v

[fickle knoll]

dude i already did that

[wintry quarry]

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/use-snipping-tool-to-capture-screenshots-00246869-1843-655f-f220-97299b865f6b

[swift sedge]

also use WinKey + Shift + S instead

its 10x better

allows you to snip certain regions of the screen

[swift sedge]

the IntelliSense is not working

[slender nymph]

go through the entire guide again because you very clearly missed something

and click the Regenerate Project Files button when you see it

[ashen ferry]

using System.Security.Cryptography

bro onto something

[polar acorn]

Not configured. You've missed a step somewhere. Did you get the last step where you're supposed to restart VS

[slender nymph]

also System.Collections.Specialized 😬

[fickle knoll]

it was just there

i didnt type it

[swift sedge]

who tf uses that

[swift sedge]

another reason for it not working

unity only has Collections and Generic

and Unity Engine

ofc

[fickle knoll]

im doing the unity pathway thingy so in the scripit is was just there

[slender nymph]

unity has neither since they are namespaces in the BCL, but so is Specialized

[swift sedge]

i meant auto generated

[swift crag]

probably the result of aggressive auto-completion of type names

[slender nymph]

have you completed the steps in the configuration guide yet?

[fickle knoll]

doing it again

rn

[slender nymph]

make sure you do not skip any steps. with the exception of installing Unity and Visual Studio again. you do still need to use the visual studio installer for the unity workload though

[dawn sparrow]

Anyone know if it's possile to use enums as paramaters in the animator?

[swift crag]

No. Animators can only have int, float, bool, and parameters

[slender nymph]

do you see an option for an enum when you add a parameter in the animator?

[dawn sparrow]

That's too bad

[slender nymph]

you can use ints since enums are just ints with nametags anyway

[swift crag]

Of course, you can convert an enum value into an integer. But there will be no relationship between the int and the original enum

[dawn sparrow]

Yeah, just looks way neater to use enums

[swift crag]

you won't be able to see your enum names in the animator, and the animator won't update if you rearrange or change the values of the enum values

[dawn sparrow]

With ints im constantly having to go between my enum list and manually convert that to int

[swift sedge]

an enum is just an array of items with names

[swift crag]

eh, I wouldn't say that

an enum type is a type with zero or more values

it's not an "array", for sure

[swift crag]

hence the name: you enumerate all of the type's values

[swift sedge]

oh

enum = enumeration

[dawn sparrow]

I created a code-generating script that automatically creates enums for all items and abilities in the game, so that won't be an issue

I guess another option is a fully code-based approach

[swift sedge]

do you need the Game Development With Unity package in visual studio installer?

(thats what i have)

[slender nymph]

yes

[swift sedge]

so maybe grasshat doesnt have that installed

[slender nymph]

probably, hence my instructions for following all of the steps including that step

[hushed hinge]

am I beeing ignored?

[slender nymph]

being ignored implies that people intentionally did not reply to you. however that is clearly not the case since you ignored follow up questions #💻┃code-beginner message

[fickle knoll]

well i have to go i will try to figure it out tommorrow

[shadow flame]

when i start game my main menu pops up and goes into main game scene

idk how to fix

[slender nymph]

please see #854851968446365696 for what to include when asking for help. right now, with no context we can really only guess at what the issue might be

[shadow flame]

this pops up for a second then it switches scene to to

[slender nymph]

screenshots of your menu and scene aren't really going to tell us anything

[shadow flame]

what can i do

[rich adder]

start looking for any code that has SceneManager in it

[slender nymph]

well considering this is a code channel, maybe take a look at your code?

[polar acorn]

Scenes don't just switch of their own accord -- if the scene is changing it's because you've told it to somewhere

[slender nymph]

well there you go, you're loading the level1 scene in Start

[polar acorn]

Okay, so, when this object is created, you go to level1. Is that what you want

[shadow flame]

is that not when i click start

?

[swift crag]

why would it be?

[polar acorn]

No, that's when the object is created

[swift crag]

I suppose it is, technically

[polar acorn]

https://docs.unity3d.com/ScriptReference/MonoBehaviour.Start.html

[slender nymph]

damn beat me to it

[swift crag]

but Start is a unity message.

Name it something else.

[shadow flame]

ohh

and

what is this

[swift crag]

you probably moved the file.

[rich adder]

maybe deleted file

or moved

[shadow flame]

ok thatnks

[lime leaf]

Does anyone how I can speed up my unity project load time?

[polar acorn]

And the fact that it's in Miscellaneous Files means you haven't configured your !ide

[eternal falcon]

💡 IDE Configuration

If your IDE is not autocompleting code
or underlining errors, please configure it:

• Visual Studio (Installed via Unity Hub)
• Visual Studio (Installed manually)

• VS Code*
• JetBrains Rider
• Other/None

*VS Code's debugger plugin is unsupported.
We recommend using VS or Rider instead.

[swift crag]

also, "Miscellaneous Files" being there implies your IDE isn't set up properly. Are you getting error highlighting and completion suggestions?

zoop

[polar acorn]

Have less stuff in it

That's really your only option

[lime leaf]

I just made one and it is taking like 30 Minuets to load it

[slender nymph]

they do get the "Unity Script" code lens and proper syntax highlighting so the file may just not be part of the project. actually it was probably deleted or moved based on the error they are receiving

[swift crag]

you will get slow loading if you're using a slow hard drive or have antivirus software trying to scan all of the tiny files unity makes

[lime leaf]

Also this just came uo

[shadow flame]

1 more thing i just dont know how to explain it

[polar acorn]

It takes exactly as long as your computer needs to load everything. No more, no less

You can either speed up the machine or make it have to do less

[swift crag]

Unity-5.x is..alarming to see

[rich adder]

first time start up is normal

packages are downloading

[shadow flame]

is there a way to stop my charecter from spining after going off a corner of a box collider

[swift crag]

freeze rotation on the rigidbody.

[rich adder]

lock rigidbody Z - its under Constraints in Rigidbody component

[lime leaf]

Is this a major issue?

[shadow flame]

tysm

[polar acorn]

What Unity version are you using

[lime leaf]

2022.3.10f1

[slender nymph]

it's not an issue, you can just reset the layout and it should prevent that warning from happening again

[rich adder]

i had that too not sure wats it about

[slender nymph]

if it is an old project, that is to be expected opening it in a recent editor version

[polar acorn]

Then it's no issue. Go to window -> layouts -> reset all

[lime leaf]

It is still there

[rich adder]

clear console

[lime leaf]

Thank you!

[bright violet]

I'm having problems with the raycast hitbox of an UI Image, the hitbox is skewed and I can't get why

[rich adder]

wdym skewed?
share setup

[wintry quarry]

skewing is usually due to non uniform scaling of the object's parent(s)

[bright violet]

the green hitbox box looks fine, but as you can see when i try and click it to turn it blue it often doesn't

[bright violet]

well it's on a canvas, no other parents

[wintry quarry]

Check the preview window on your event system

possibly something else is blocking it

[bright violet]

nop, it just hits the background at one point

[rich adder]

you're using collider on UI element 🤔

[bright violet]

hm?

[wintry quarry]

Is this true? I don't see that

[bright violet]

it's not a collider

[wintry quarry]

can you use the rect tool btw

not the move tool

though I suspect it will show the same box...

[rich adder]

is the green not colliders?

weird

[bright violet]

yep, same

[bright violet]

well it's kind of a ui trigger so it makes sense for it to be green

[rich adder]

btw always b sure you're working with pivot mode not center

[rich adder]

Oh i never used UI triggers thats new to me

[bright violet]

oh thanks yeah

i forgot abt that

i still don't get what the problem is

[rich adder]

can you share script

[bright violet]

sure, even tho even the eventSystem shows the same behaviour

public void OnPointerClick(PointerEventData eventData)
{
    if (selectable) { 
        if (!selected) {
            selected = true;
            Events.selected.Invoke(eventData.pointerClick.gameObject);
        }
        else
        {
            selected = false;
            Events.unselected.Invoke(eventData.pointerClick.gameObject);
        }
    }
}```

[bright violet]

maybe it's some setting messed up with the canvas?

[rich adder]

you can try looking at event system inspector in playmode see whats going on there as well

[bright violet]

the eventSystem shows the same behaviour

[ashen ferry]

wtf is going on with ur scale bro fix that before u gonna need to rescale everything like I had

[bright violet]

hm?

[rich adder]

it just looks like its using the rect transform size for raycasting target

[ashen ferry]

still rescaling btw lmfao I wanted draggable rect and sensitivity was off cause of scale

[bright violet]

I mean, that's the default behaviour. Then you can set to ignore the alpha of the rect with a line of code like i did

[rich adder]

the one you sent?

[bright violet]

No, in another script

go.GetComponent<Image>().alphaHitTestMinimumThreshold = 1f;

[rich adder]

and this line / correct object is referenced ?

you debug.log and made sure line is running, more details on how you tried to debug would help

[ashen ferry]

what do you mean eventSystem shows same behaviour, when you hover over your button is Name correct or no

[bright violet]

from a google search it looks like it's a problem on unity's side

it is fixable by changing meshtype from Tight to FullRect

[bright violet]

(it's this line giving the problem in the first place)

[rich adder]

idk I tried test alphaHitTestMinimumThreshold but never used it.. cs Using alphaHitTestMinimumThreshold greater than 0 on Image whose sprite texture cannot be read. Texture 'aaa' is not readable, the texture memory can not be accessed from scripts. You can make the texture readable in the Texture Import Settings. Also make sure to disable sprite packing for this sprite.

[bright violet]

this helped: https://forum.unity.com/threads/image-alphahittestminimumthreshold-not-working-correctly.465586/

[languid spire]

yep, texture needs to be marked as Read/Write

[rich adder]

oops

[polar acorn]

Enable Read/Write in the texture's import settings

[rich adder]

reading skill issue

[rich adder]

which part? its a long ass thread xD

[bright violet]

"Hi again! Found a real solution: pixels won't be shifted IF you change the texture's import properties: MeshType = from Tight to FullRect. According to the Unity help on SpriteMeshType is:

FullRect = Rectangle mesh equal to the user specified sprite size.
Tight = Tight mesh based on pixel alpha values. As many excess pixels are cropped as possible.

That explains our problem: if we use Tight, then alpha=0 pixels on the four edges are cut off, this is why the coordinates get shifted by the alphaHitTestMinimumThreshold bug. That's it :)"

[rich adder]

wow this is some obscureness I just learned about UI 👍

[bright violet]

ikr?

[rich adder]

is working now for you?

pretty kewl

[bright violet]

yes! perfectly

I'm creating a map editor and that was crucial

[shadow flame]

how can i load next scene without the name

instead of "level2"

[rich adder]

scene index?

[bright violet]

you can either use the scene index or a scene reference

[shadow flame]

how can i use that

[bright violet]

well in your build settings you're gonna put all the scenes ur gonna use

and they're gonna have an index

from 0 to X

[shadow flame]

like that